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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.

Peter Drucker

Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.
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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
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Opportunity Problem Result
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk

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